Over the past couple months I've found that I have a hard time keeping track of what ink I have in each of my inked pens. It probably doesn't help that I could have up to 15 pens inked at any point in time. (Addiction, what addiction? Seriously, though, paring down the number of inked pens I have is a post for another day and is not something I'm ready to tackle yet).

Anyway, I thought it would be a good idea to track my pen and ink combinations each month in a central place. This central place will now be a Tomoe River Notebook bound by Coach House Press for Wonderpens in Toronto. It was easy to select this notebook because I love using Tomoe River paper, and, Wonderpens did a good job making notebooks from this paper. The notebook is A5 sized and contains 64 pages covered in light card stock, staple bound and is very light and easy to carry around.

Towards the end of February many of my pens emptied out needed to be cleaned and re-inked. Hence, I thought it would be interesting to write about my thought process on pen and ink combinations.

The most notable in the holdovers is actually the FC. I had eye droppered it for the first time in January. It was the first time that I had filled any pen by eye dropper so it was a proud accomplishment for me as novice fountain pen user. It was actually very easy to do and I never had issues with ink leakage. The only 'issue' per se is that the cavity of the pen is quite large so it handles a LOT of ink. Coupled with the neddlepoint nib, this has meant that the ink has lasted a LONG time. No joking. I think I still have 1/3 of ink left.

NEW (In order of appearance in line-up)

Newly Inked

Pen: Lamy 2000Ink: Private Reserve Grey FlannelI like to keep grey or black inks in this pen. I find the Grey Flannel to be more flannel (if that's even a colour) than grey.

Pen: TWSBI Diamond 580 - Orange EFInk: Lamy BlueI had to fill this from something blue in a bottle (as opposed to ink sample). I kind of defaulted to Lamy Blue because this ink hasn't been used in a long time.